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Google discontinues support for IE7 in Google Apps

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Re: Google discontinues support for IE7 in Google Apps

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Post by magicalist »

melling wrote: post #2

Do you think they'll really drop IE8 once IE10 is released next year? Firefox 5 will be released tomorrow. FF 3.6 support will be discontinued? Actually, it would be great if Google could nudge everyone to keep upgrading.

Or Firefox 4 when Firefox 6 is released in August? I'm curious about this too.

Of course, "not supported" isn't the same as "not working". For Firefox (just like Chrome), I doubt there will be changes breaking enough to cause a problem. The real question is if they'll start using features (e.g. canvas or newer selectors) not available in those earlier browsers for major functionality in their apps.

Re: Google discontinues support for IE7 in Google Apps

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Post by bpeebles »

melling wrote: post #2

Do you think they'll really drop IE8 once IE10 is released next year? Firefox 5 will be released tomorrow. FF 3.6 support will be discontinued? Actually, it would be great if Google could nudge everyone to keep upgrading.

And once again, they list specific version numbers for IE, Firefox, and Safari, but just say "Chrome" for Chrome, even though later it groups Chrome with the rest of the two most recent.

I guess it's because they don't know for sure what versions of Chrome will be the two most recent released, but it's still kind of funny.

Re: Google discontinues support for IE7 in Google Apps

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Post by michaelcampbell »

melling wrote: post #2

Do you think they'll really drop IE8 once IE10 is released next year? Firefox 5 will be released tomorrow. FF 3.6 support will be discontinued? Actually, it would be great if Google could nudge everyone to keep upgrading.

In theory I agree with you, but at some point people are going to get tired of the upgrade forces and stop using Google apps.

Re: Google discontinues support for IE7 in Google Apps

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Post by tonfa »

michaelcampbell wrote: post #6
melling wrote: post #2

Do you think they'll really drop IE8 once IE10 is released next year? Firefox 5 will be released tomorrow. FF 3.6 support will be discontinued? Actually, it would be great if Google could nudge everyone to keep upgrading.

In theory I agree with you, but at some point people are going to get tired of the upgrade forces and stop using Google apps.

Why would they be tired? Is it a pain to upgrade? (I admit I've become used to chrome upgrading in the background).

Re: Google discontinues support for IE7 in Google Apps

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Post by BCM43 »

melling wrote: post #2

Do you think they'll really drop IE8 once IE10 is released next year? Firefox 5 will be released tomorrow. FF 3.6 support will be discontinued? Actually, it would be great if Google could nudge everyone to keep upgrading.

Firefox 5 will be released tomorrow. FF 3.6 support will be discontinued?

This would cause problems for anyone on Debian squeeze.

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